Furman hasn’t been this good since it was regularly making NCAA Tournaments in the 1970s.
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Furman has the 16th-highest three-point rate in the country with 47 percent of its shots coming beyond the arc. The Paladins not only shoot a lot of threes, but make a lot of them, as they are making 36.2 percent for a top-90 accuracy in the country.
For reference, the average game Furman plays sees the Paladins make 10 three-pointers and shoot 28 of them. WSU hasn’t played against a team like that since Davidson at the Charleston Classic.
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But Furman is actually a better defensive team. The Paladins have the No. 42-best defense in the KenPom rankings and average more than eight steals per game, which comes out to a 12.2 steal percentage for the eighth-best mark in the country. Furman also owns a top-50 block percentage and defends the three-point line well with opponents shooting a tick above 31 percent ... Furman’s No. 42 defense is not quite on par with [American Conference foes] Houston (No. 13) or Cincinnati (No. 28), but it would be comfortably the third-best defense in the American.
Furman rarely uses its bench players. That makes the Paladins susceptible to foul trouble and WSU, which has a rotation of 10 players, could use its depth to its advantage.
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